BUCKSPORT — The Gulf of Maine has a golden opportunity for extensive revitalization coming as Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins return to Washington. About $990 million will be available to resurrect our legendary coastal fisheries and environmental richness.
But they must champion these proposed new funds in different bills written in response to two great disasters in our sister Gulf, as the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has arrived, and BP's criminal negligence has been capped off (maybe).
I remember watching a band of New Orleans musicians sway solemnly by vast acres of stacked caskets filled with their forebears' remains. I wondered how all this beauty had evolved. I remember thinking that of course the levees would protect them – they were built by the Army Corps of Engineers, after all.
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